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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Just like banging a porn star and hooking up with a cougar housewife during a blackout bender in Vegas, dating the successor to a billion-dollar fortune should be pretty high on every Bro's bucket list. Just think, while your drinking buddies are slaving away in middle management waiting for happy hour, you can be spending your summer Fridays teeing up on a golf course her father owns or jetting off via Gulfstream to her family's bungalow in Saint Tropez. Unfortunately, there's more bros in the world than hot billionaire daughters, so the odds of shacking up with a 10-figure heiress are probably just as slim as being the coveted third notch in Meagan Fox's bedpost.

Billionaire daughters have a bad rap as high-maintenance trust fund babies and socialite ladies of pleasure. Also, let's not forget that wealth is not always synonymous with good genes. Not every tycoon and captain of industry in the exclusive billionaires' club has drop-dead gorgeous offspring. In order to help you navigate the tiny sea of billionaire darlings, we've compiled a 16-item guide to the hottest billionaire daughters in the world. What would it take to date one of these girls? Besides being a professional athlete or a Hollywood A-lister, the obvious answer is a parent or family member with a similar position on the Forbes list. Connections and opportunity are everything when it comes to bringing a date home to a daddy who's in the upper stratosphere of world wealth. Most of the selections are industrious and individuals who work hard to fill the giant shoes of their family's business legacy and financial accomplishments. Of course, others are simply hard-partying runway models. Enjoy the hotties after the jump.

Three years ago Amancio Ortega Gaona's youngest daughter, Marta Perez, began her quest to inherit her father's Inditex fashion retail empire with a no-frills job stocking shelves and dealing with customers service at a Bershka fashion store. Inditex now boasts some 4,500 stores in 73 countries, including chichi designer brands such as Bershka, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti, and the massive Zara chain. The daughter of Spain's richest man is reported to be an avid equestrian and still single, so a little horse whispering might be the quickest way to winning the heart of this billionaire heiresses.

If being an attention whore is a disease, it must run in the Trump family. The Donald's sexy Wharton-alum daughter has been adorning magazine covers since 1997 and an "Apprentice" boardroom fixture since 2006. The daughter to Donald's ex-wife Ivana, Ivanka was a runway model before entering the family business. In October 2009, Ivanka dashed the hopes of aspiring underlings everywhere by converting to Judaism and marrying real estate heir and media upstart Jared Kushner.

In May 2005, a young Manhattan model became a nightlife party girl with a lot of buzz when New York magazine published a exclusive profile about her gallivanting. Widely recognized as "the Russian Paris Hilton," Anna Anisimova's enterprising Russian father amassed his billions by establishing a prosperous aluminum mining company after the Soviet Union collapsed. Now an NYU student, Anna's freewheelin' spending habits on premium real estate have raised the media's collective eye-brow. Her dad once fronted her $550,000 in cash for a summer rental in Southampton, New York. It's also been reported that she dipped into daddy's wallet for a $23 million West Village townhouse that she converted into condos and a $15 million crash pad in the Time Warner Center.

Robert Johnson, the visionary founder and CEO of BET, became the first African-American billionaire in 2001. One year later he started the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team, earning another page in the history books as the first African-American principle owner of a sports team. His daughter Paige, grew up in the Washington D.C. area and claims to be quite the horse enthusiast. In 2009, Forbes revoked her father's ticket to the billionaires club, reporting that Johnson's fortune shrunk by almost half. To make matters worse, last week the Daily Beast speculated that Johnson's recent sale of the Bobcats to Michael Jordan reflects his dire financial situation.

A granddaughter to the late Grace Kelly and an eligible heir to the throne of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi is a 23-year-old editor-at-large for Above fashion magazine. Her inheritance isn't limited to her grandfather's royal fortune and her grandmother's good looks. At the age of 17, this elegant fashionsita was gifted a private island off the coast of Sardinia.

Rather than milking her father's fortune from the Virgin empire, Richard Branson's bombshell daughter briefly decided to pursue a pediatric medical degree at University College in London. After smelling the roses that her father is one of the coolest billionaires in the world, Holly left her medical ambitions to intern at Virgin and begin the climb up the company ladder. Although she's still single, there's been tabloid speculation that she might be a suitor to Prince William.

Tamara Ecclestone's father, Bernard, has managed to capitalize on the explosion of interest in F-1 racing around the world, tying him with Richard Branson at the #212 spot on the 2010 Forbes list. Tamara works as a racing television host in Britain and her Croatian mother is a former Armani model.

Ralph Lauren's Polo empire began in a working-class neighborhood in the Bronx and blossomed into the most iconic American fashion success story. Ralph's oldest daughter Dylan is the brainchild behind Dylan's Candy Bar, a boutique candy store with locations in New York, Houston, and Orlando. At 36 years old, she's definitely moving into cougar territory, but still brings fiery good looks. It's an obvious sign she's not overindulging on the sweets.

Position on 2010 Forbes Billionaire List: #47 Ariana's last name is Rockefeller -- as in John Rockerfeller -- which tells us she's a future heiress of a family that built it's fortune on Texas gold. Her father, David Rockerfeller Jr., manages the an estimated three billion in assets through Rockefeller Financial Services, which holds court in the family's namesake midtown Manhattan plaza.

Stanley Ho is a self-made Hong Kong-based developer who built his fortune by investing in casino and gambling operations in Macau. Two years ago the New York Times called his 35-year-old daughter Josie Ho one of the "most recognized faces in Chinese entertainment," even though her movies and television shows are barley a blip on the radar in the United States.

Georgina Bloomberg, the daughter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is both an accomplished equestrian and New York Knicks fan, where she's frequently spotted with her billionaire father. In November, Georgina dished to Page Six magazine about choosing an equestrian career over college and her father's meteoric rise on the billionaire list. Most recently Georgina landed a sports modeling deal.

When billionaire Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in 2005, his youngest daughter inherited an estimated $1.1 billion from her father's oil exploration and contracting fortune. Before getting married, Hind was a fixture on the Parisian fashion scene.

The daughter of billionaire Cigar Aficionado investor and leveraged-buyout king Ron Pearlman attended the University of Pennsylvania, where the Pearlman family name adorns a campus quad. While billionaire heiresses don't tend to share their thoughts online, she's one of the few on this list besidesParis Hilton that you can follow on Twitter.

You didn't think we'd snub the hottest mess in Hollywood from a list of billionaire daughters, did you? Unflattering words such as "cretin," "good for nothing," and "dunderhead" are often associated with the "One Night In Paris" co-star and her socialite younger sister. Fortunately, her grandfather William Hilton -- the head of Hilton Hotels and son of the company's founder, Conrad Hilton -- has pledged most of the Hilton Hotel fortune to charity, so it's doubtful we'll ever see this amateur porn star and her tabloid fixture sis join ranks with the other billionaire daughters on this list.

Norwegian-born shipping magnate John Fredriksen has been called "a modern day Onassis." The shipping tycoon has amassed an impressive fortune by building oil tankers and drilling equipment for maritime oil exploration. His 25-year old twin daughters are Scandinavian smoke shows who work in companies controlled by their billionaire dad.

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